askari
/as-kuh-ree/US // ˈæs kə ri //UK // (asˈkaːri) //
问里,阿斯卡利,阿卡里
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural as·ka·ris, as·ka·ri.
- : a native African police officer or soldier, especially one serving a colonial administration.
Examples
It has been six months since unknown insurgents destroyed the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra.
Graceful as a deer was Nazoro, and a good Askari lost in a better operating-room boy.
Loads were piled neatly, covered with a tarpaulin, and the pile guarded by an askari.
He thought of going out to join the askari, or native guard, who was keeping watch some thirty feet away.
It seemed absolutely endless, and once or twice I feared that two of the Askari would have died of the wet, cold, and exposure.
Fortunately there were at Lamu at this time a party of Wakwafi Askari (soldiers).
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